Archive for the tag 'homebirth'

For the Midwives — Attunement

This beautiful piece was forwarded to me by the amazing Val. It was written by a friend of hers, Frankie Condon. I hope you enjoy it. Mostly I don’t get nostalgic. Maybe it’s that I have enough not-so-nice memories of times past that I’d rather poke holes in myself with a pickle fork than go [...]

Brilliant — Restaurant Wars!

This post, from Sheridan, is absolutely brilliant. Read it and laugh. And then, if you’re me, get vaguely ill, because it’s come to that. Restaurant Wars

Aurora vs. the Bureaucrat

I think there’s no time like the present to teach your kids that bureaucracies are made for poking holes in. Like, when they’re three months old. Aurora and I set off for downtown Oakland, to get her paper trail going. Ours is a documentation-crazy society, and it’s far easier to do all this when they’re [...]

Thoughts at 26 Weeks

So here I am, over halfway. In our culture, for the first baby, you spend all your time panicking about the unknown of it all. In my case, I spent my second pregnancy wholly focused on the event of the birth, which was a planned HBAC, and came with all the challenges inherent to that. [...]